Buget Cuts And The Declaration Of Independence

An Associated Press article by David Espo indicates that the GOP is faced with a dilemma in that they have a desire to cut cost or raise taxes to balance the budget. This is America so raising taxes goes against the general grain as King George and Parliament discovered to their loss. Taxes can also stifle the economy in that the people have less money to purchase services and supplies with. Katrina and other disasters have cost taxpayers huge amounts of money and the Iraq war has made its own demands. Where to cut is a question I would not want to face but our Congress people were elected to make those hard decisions and to compromise in a timely manner. I will be looking to make sure they do so.

Nerveless I hope that they renegotiate the cuts proposed as many will more likely cause an increase in children murdered by abortions, since poverty is one reason given by women for getting an abortion . Poverty also gives birth to other types of crimes as it causes more stress on the individuals. Cutting the social programs that are aimed at reducing that poverty is not acceptable unless there are no other options to balance the budget. According to the Declaration of Independence the responsibility of the government is to insure the right to life, health, and the pursuit of happiness of its people and the unnecessary cutting of those social programs would be destructive of that end.

The hypothesis, as proposed in an article by Chuck Hagee, that local governments and charities would pick up the bill is not completely stupid but does have some flaws. A major flaw is that some communities are poor and some are rich which leads to the conclusion that the communities that need the most help will not have the resources available to meet the demand. On the other hand the ones with the most resources will not have the demand for the social services.

The tax cuts that President Bush proposes are of doubtful worth as even if the individuals whom benefit from them invest their money in corporations what guarantee do we have that the jobs generated are even in America. If he can prove that the tax cuts benefit the poor or miiddle class whom will spend their money on products sold in the United States then I can understand them but otherwise I see no advantage in these cuts when we can not pay our bills.

The GOP forget one tenant of society in that you need to take care of your poor and let your middle class and rich take care of themselves. You can do this by addressing the natural capitalistic economic imbalance where the rich tend to end up with all the money while the poor starve by taxing the rich more than the poor. The flat tax is therefore oppressive as is the sales tax as poor spend more of their money on purchases. On the other hand getting rid of all tax deductions would be a good ideal as it would reduce the overhead of the IRS and most cannot be claimed by the poor.